The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-04
SOUTHERN GI.EANINGS.

Laurens, 5. C., of the killing Of Bishop
last July.
At trial at the Clay County CGs.)
Court, the other day, two witnesses were
put open the stand who did not know who
made them, had never heard of Heaven or
hell, and did not know whether lie was
right or wrong.
Yellow fever lies may be counted on un-
til the middle of September. Memphis has
just knocked lie No. / on the head. Yellow
fever never entered the Mississippi valley
except via New Orleans, and the latter city
is as free form that malady this year as
Quebec.
South Carolina has effected a sale of
10000 acres of pasture land in Berkley
County to a stock raising company of
Charleston men. Some Northern capital
lists have bought a tract of 10000 acres in
the same part of the State at one dollar
per acre, and are negotiating for the pur.
chase of $4,000 acres more at the same price.
The timber on these lands is worth at least
ten dollars per acre. A company is to be
organized and large saw and planning mills
erected.
Miss Theresa Wall committed suicide
few days ago by jumping in the well at
the residence of Mr.. n. c. Parker, in Mon
roe County, Tenn She belonged to one of
the first families in the county, and in
letter left in her room explained that the
cause of her rash act was disappointment
in love
The soap and candle factory of Fabel &
Sons at l. ouisville, KY, was burned few
days ago. Loss, S2I 900; insured.
The officials of Shreveport, La, are tack
ling knotty questionable equalization of
taxation on property.
The jury in the case of John J.. Fits and
Richard Fits, at OwensbOro, KY, for the
the murder of the four-y ear-old child OF
Alex. Johnson, after being out eighteen
hours, returned verdict of not guilty.
A break in the ammonia coil in the salt
tank of the Shreveport (La.) ice factory,
caused almost an ice famine in that place
recently. A demand was made on the
northern ice companies, but they could not
suffice, with the accent on the ice.
A fire at Georgetown, KY, a few days
since, destroyed seven buildings in the
principal business block of town, including
the office of the Times newspaper. Total
loss estimated at $4,000.
A freight train containing seventeen
thousand watermelons, "fresh and fine,
just from the vine," left Valdosta, Ca, a
few days since and reached Boston after
making the run of 1900 miles in seventy.
five hours. The melons were in good con.
dition.
81 Georgia has prohibition in 115 of her 1877
counties, and claims to be in better tenn
perance standing than either Maine or
Kansas.
C.. j. Litel. Braethitt County (Ky.)
lumber merchant, was arrested few
nights ago at the instance of Marion Chill
4 ,Io
that Litel made away with 81 800 worth of
county bonds that he gave him to sell.
The Glen bill, recently introduced in the
Georgia Legislature, providing for sepa-
rate white and colored schools and for d
sharp drawing of the color line in other
public matters, has created intense indig.
nation among the negroes of the State,
who are making strenuous efforts to secure
its defeat.
The Alabama Legislature has passed a
law disqualifying for service after August
/, prox., as locomotive engineer, fireman,
train conductor, brakeman, station agent,
f1agman, gate-tender, or signal man, all
persons affected with color blindness or
loss of visual power.
John Pickett, moonshiner, shot and
killed his wife few nights ago on Wal
denis Ridge, fifteen miles from Chatta-
nooga. Tenn, because she refused to ac-
company him to his still. The murderer
escaped Officers were securing the coun-
try for him.
The seventh annual Mississippi State
Prohibition convention assembled at Jack
son last week. Thirty-one counties were
represented by regular delegates and
several by prOXies-about forty in all. The
meeting was composed of representative
men. Bishop Galloway of the Methodist
Church was the presiding officer
Work on the Alabama, Florida & At
lantic road has begun, and the contractors
are pushing it forward vigorously. Over
$50 hands are now at Sorrento, Orange
County, engaged in cleaning the right of
way and grading. Double that number
will soon be employed. A portion of the
southern division will be in operation this
winter.
A st. Louis paper is responsible for the
statement that an agent of the Southern
Methodist Church. just returned from a
trip through Southeastern Kentucky re
ports that out of seven county seats visit
ed, five have not now and never had a
church building of any kind.
Cora Miner, aged eighteen, daughter of
II. c. Miner, residing at Oradell, near
Mount Pleasant, La, died few nights ago
from the effect of a dose of strychnine
taken with suicidal intent. She had been
sick for some time, which is the only cause
known. 1t was not known that she had
taken poison until she sent for the doctor
herself, and begged him to give her an
emetic, as she has taken strychnine. She
then wished to live, but it was too late.
Policeman Douglass, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, shot at his partner, Policeman Dun
can, a few days ago while standing on the
street There was no cause for the shoot
ing. The bullet missed Duncan, but
Douglass was standing so close when he
fired the shot that Duncan's face was bad
ly burned with powder, and one grain of
powder was imbedded in his right eye
ball, which may destroy the sight. Doug
lass was drunk when he fired the shot.
A company has been made up at Bir-
mingham, Ala, and 900 of local capital
pledged, to begin work on such plant as
will make a satisfactory test of the Hen
derson steel-making improvements, Mr..
Henderson having been there several weeks
and explained his process thoroughly.
There are no iron-masters in the project,
but several chemists and metallurgists,
who are satisfied of the efficiency of the
process applied to the ores of that district.
Mr.. Henderson says the company ought to
make steel in the next four months.
The Louisiana cane crop is good.
The corner stone of st. Paul's Catholic
Church at Owensboro, KY, which is to cost
$4,000, was laid a few days since with i'm
posing ceremonies by Bishop McClosky, of
Louisville, assisted by very Rev. George
McClosky, of Preston Park Theological
Seminary, and the priests of the diocese.
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